I know it's a bullshit fountain. If you want info, it will give you crap and sound really authoritative while doing it.
But I just felt like talking to someone about how I miss my mum. She died of cancer in December 2021, and it's the middle of the night now, so I talked to ChatGPT about her.
And it was helpful, you know?
Took the e-scooter off-road today. Got it doing 30kph sideways.
Awesome.
That is exactly what it is.
However, we do not have gas.
(Well, technically there is gas in the pipe behind the valve, but it's mostly nitrogen)
Cis people on social media say the stupidest shit about “sex and gender”.
My god, you’d think that people with opinions that poorly developed would have the sense to keep quiet about them, rather than show the world how little they’ve actually considered them while being confidently incorrect, but apparently not.
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Also “transwomen (SIC) have higher bone density”.
What hormone influences bone density, Karen? Take all the time you need.
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Dear god. After multiple posts with paragraph after paragraph of cherry picked bullshit about how I’m “really male”, random internet TERF who I will never meet says, “sex isn’t relevant to how I address people”.
I’d hate to see what she thinks is relevant.
The simple fact is this: if your classification system of sex results in you deciding that some women are not women, then the problem is your classification system, not reality.
Get a better one.
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@Christine Munro 🧀 so many failures of western democracies are the complacency of the “we are better than that, and therefore it can’t happen here”.
Spoiler: you aren’t, and it can.
Looking for technical stuff about DHCP. Google was returning lots of junk and so, wary that ChatGPT is a bullshit fountain, I asked it anyway.
It gave me several concise and to the point answers addressing exactly what I asked.
They were all completely wrong. It just confidently spouted bullshit the same way a narcissist bluffing about a subject they know almost nothing about will.
However, the bullshit it gave me allowed me to frame some pertinent google searches to actually get the information I wanted.
So I guess that’s a usage model for it: to guide your google searches.
The issue is that Google will slowly fill up with the output of the bullshit fountains, at which point we won’t be able to check their answers anymore, because they’ll effectively be marking their own homework.
Utter joy abounds (not really).
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I think that maybe Google delivered too well to start with. It never promised to give the best answer (truest?) simply the most relevant for the question (most popular?)
Maybe we are seeing things hitting their 'eternal September' much more quickly?
After all, "Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea. Massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it."
— Gene Spafford, 1992
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I am not a coffee drinker. Being cursed with supertaste, I have spent my life finding the stuff utterly undrinkable.
But now I'm nearly 50, many of my taste buds have died off and I have been slowly managing to acquire the taste.
The flat in Portugal came with an expensive coffee machine, which @Zoe O'Connell uses but I don't (it'll do hot water, but not hot enough for decent tea, so I reverted to the kettle very quickly).
But today I asked it to make me something called a "Latte Macchiato", which the picture shows in a glass.
And now I know why. The preparation is quite a show! The machine adds hot milk, then milk froth, then coffee. The coffee drops straight through the froth layer to form a new layer in the middle which then artfully diffuses into the milk below.
Tasted not offensive too. Actually almost pleasant.
But as a tea drinker, I have a very very low tolerance for caffeine and OH MY GOD ALL THE THINGS SOMEONE TURN THE WORLD DOWN!!!!!!!Eleven!!!!
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What fresh hell is this? AI search engine, you.com allows you to search social media handles. Here's what it says about me, most of which (in fact, nearly all of it), is bullshit.
When I tell it it's almost completely wrong, it castigates me for giving it "incorrect information"!
Can we burn these things with fire now, please?
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@James Graham I asked it and it said,
Unconditional surrender to the mind means to let go of the ego and open one's mind to the possibilities and potential of what can be done. It means to surrender to the higher power of the subconscious, to surrender all preconceived notions, and to accept the potential of what can be accomplished. It is a surrendering of the sense of control and an allowing of the natural flow of life to take its course. It is a letting go of the need to be in control and a trusting of the process.
It then showed me this photo.
Adelle: Everybody tells me it's 'bout time that I moved on
And I need to learn to lighten up and learn how to be young
But my heart is a valley, it's so shallow and man made
I'm scared to death if I let you in that you'll see I'm just a fake
Sometimes I feel lonely in the arms of your touch
But I know that's just me, 'cause nothing ever is enough
When I was a child I grew up by the River Lea
There was something in the water, now that something's in me
Me: Probably leptospirosis. If it doesn't clear up go see your GP.
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European trans people on European websites talking to Europeans about European social issues, in Europe: …
Americans: And I took that personally.
I get the Tories deciding to make trans people A Thing because they have nothing left and this, they hope, will save a few of them at the next general election.
The utter indifference and cowardice in opposing the terrorising of thousands of people because it might lose them 12 votes in an election they’re going to fucking walk anyway from Labour, and the silent complicity from the Lib Dems is fucking unforgivable though. People are fucking terrified and they don’t give the first fucking shit.
I remember the SSM debate in the Lords. Exclamations and lamentations over how politicians had treated LGB people dreadfully over the years.
And they’re fucking doing it again, the Tories because it’s convenient, and the others because they simply do not give enough of a shit to do the right thing.
I am FUCKING INCANDESCENT with rage.
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You're right of course. It is a vile mixture off cowardice and indifference. If the Greens don't get shot of Sharar Ali I won't be voting for them either.
Bunch of bastards!
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They Might be Giants: Why did Constantinople get the works?
Me: Because Enrico Dandolo
They Might be Giants: Actually that was rhetorical…
Americans have quite the penchant for taking sports and dialling them up to 11:
Rounders there is a whole theatre production with stuff for all the family for each match.
They took Rugby and have it plyed by guys in big elaborate armour and something about owls.
They take the Scottish sport of golf VERY seriously indeed.
And now they have taken the upper class sport of skeet shooting and are doing it with weather balloons and supersonic fighter jets!
Gotta hand it to them; they have the whole “go large or go home” thing down.
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Chatting with someone I was at school with 32 years ago last night via the Zuckverse. He’s now a consultant plastic surgeon, as you do.
Gonna meet up in April, probably have a drink, reminisce a bit, and then he says he can have a look at my #dupuytrens contracture.
Raspberry Pi swapfile config be like, “maximum upper limit is 2048 megabytes. Do not change this!”
And I am like, “yeah, whatever xxxxa8192^[:wq”
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You know what really pisses me off about sexual reassignment surgery?
It's that my surgeon (may he rest in peace: he died of Covid 😞) didn't come in afterwards and say, "congratulations, Mrs Brown, they weren't cancerous".
Talk about a missed opportunity.
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China: stop winding up America. It isn't big, and it isn't clever.
America: You don't have to use ALL THE WEAPONS. The balloons can't hurt you.
Seriously guys, grow the fuck up. The rest of us are watching this and it reflects badly on both of you.
Best thing about driving an EV (Nissan Leaf): coming up to the autoestrada, single lane sliproad, 270º bend, some guy behind tailgating me because I refused to speed round the bend. A lot of people do this. I guess they see a family hatchback EV and decide it must be a "little old lady"-mobile, and they have a desperate need to show me how I'm holding their impressive petrol burner up.
Bend straightens out to join the main carriageway, and I just press the "tailgater begone" switch (the accelerator, all the way to the floor).
And then suddenly an obscenity of kilowatts is delivered to my wheels, and I'm just ... gone.
About a minute later, he does a spite overtake when he's finally got up to >120kph and caught me up.
But I know I'm living rent-free in his head for that 😊
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I was leaving Linacre Water near Chesterfield, scenic dog-walker spot which has a narrow single-track lane back to the main road, and stopped at the end of the lane because I spotted a car coming the other way.
A dude in an Audi S4 Avant decided to overtake me in my PHEV Golf, and make a dash for the lane. He got alongside me before the oncoming car came around the corner, and had to reverse back behind me.
I enjoyed the next five minutes of 30 MPH driving through the next village. He didn’t get another opportunity to overtake me before I turned off for Sheffield.
I do get the same satisfaction from driving the Golf GTE. The GTE mode that runs the petrol engine and the electric motor at the same time for ridiculous throttle response is brilliant to catch show-offs out, but I’ve knocked it off lately because men do scarily dangerous things when they’ve been shown up.
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We live in a world beset by people who live a sufficiently charmed life that they are able to spend their entire time “fucking around” without ever encountering the “and find out” stage.
Be nice if that changed, wouldn’t it?
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Today the wind is blowing from the east. This generally creates very choppy waves and today is no exception. As a result, the port of Lagos is “closed to all traffic”, as the entrance is considered risky.
Portugal does this. It closes ports in conditions judged to be unsafe. This is a very different attitude to UK port authorities, which can generally be summed up as, “it’s your own stupid fault if you die”.
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Just seen the worst take about the ChatGPT thing. It was basically “we should support open source chat models instead”
A bullshit fountain is still a bullshit fountain even if you can pull its source from Git.
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For all the people wondering about why there’s so much fuss over someone personally deciding whether or not to play Grand Theft TERF or not, consider that there is a campaign to drive trans people from society in much of the English speaking world right now.
Trans people need to know who has our backs. Anyone who won’t cross the “please chose literally one of a thousand alternate and equally creative ways to get your dopamine hit” picket line (and let’s be honest, it’s the easiest picket line to not cross ever) certainly, does not have our backs.
We are used to this, but some of us persist in being optimists and expecting better of people anyway.
Meanwhile, this is an utterly amazing dopamine hit. It’s basically Tetris meets 2048, and I guess no queer people were harmed in its production. I’ve been playing the same session for weeks on and off now and have a 2^25 cube.
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But that cannot and should not apply when the "artist" uses their platform to spread hate targeted at a group of people who are just trying to be themselves.
Hello! We are DOCKER! We are a serious company providing services to the THE BIGGEST COMPANIES IN THE WORLD.
If you use our product and don’t pick a name for what it creates, we will randomly name it after an Ann Summers vibrator.
Thank you for choosing DOCKER (version 69.69, dangling-donkey).
Your regular reminder that John Money lied about the results of what he did to the Reimer twins, covered up the fact that David appeared to express an innate gender identity of male, and that both twins died by suicide, likely as a result of what Money did to them.
Furthermore, through his covering up the damage his wholly unethical experiment did, he gave legitimacy to subsequent decades of mistreatment of trans and intersex people by quacks.
It’s a shame hell isn’t a real thing, because by god, he deserves to rot there.
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My dockerised homebridge was logging using the American date format, and I found this incredibly annoying. Worked out how to fix it: you add this to the docker-compose file...
environment:
LANG: en_GB.UTF-8Took me long enough to work that out though.
building a fancy tool using MS's cloud services a few hours
Getting it to write and read out in non-fucked dates on the other hand...
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oh, joy! Looks like something I will block on principle.
"Likecoin is a digital currency that the authors of content are rewarded for each YouTube like.
Likecoin is based on Blockchain technology using the mechanism called “Proof of Popularity”: the higher the popularity of the video and the more likes it gets, the bigger is the amount of cryptocurrency rewarded to the author.
This technology makes it possible to monetize video content easily and to get a decent reward without adding any advertising or attracting advertising agencies."
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I am, unusually, awake for the sunrise. This means I just got to see a bird fly straight into my window with a loud THUMP!, turn round, and fly away again.
I guess this is the bird equivalent of me randomly walking into things. Hope it’s ok.
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The mission architecture for the ESA/NASA Mars sample return mission is becoming clear. As the spacecraft approaches Mars, it will break into an entry vehicle and an orbiter (from ESA). The entry vehicle will land and the samples will be loaded onto it by rover or helicopter.
It will then launch into Mars orbit to rendezvous with the ESA orbiter and deliver the samples. The ESA orbiter will then burn for Trans Earth Injection and coast to Earth.
Once it hits the atmosphere, it will decelerate rapidly in a blaze of fire before slowing to subsonic speed and deploying its parachutes.
At this point, the United States Air Force will scramble an elite F22 Raptor squadron and shoot it down for being a Martian Spy Capsule.
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NASA's Mars Helicopters: Present, Future, and Proposed
This illustration depicts three different of models of NASA's solar-powered Mars helicopter.NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
I now understand why you can’t share photos from a Mastodon client when using it with #Friendica:
In Friendica, photos have permissions. Mastodon doesn’t understand this, so when it uploads the photo it doesn’t set any. The Friendica server seems to see this and decide it needs to default to the most restrictive set, i.e. private.
So the created post does not contain a shareable photo.
If you then go into your gallery and edit the photo permissions to be public, then make a bullshit edit to the post, so that it refederates, it’ll suddenly appear.
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I have the exact opposite problem (and have already pulled all my hairs out trying to solve it), the Friendica instance I incompetently installed sees pictures but not text from the non-Friendica parts of the Fediverse.
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